basket fish


Origin of basket fish

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First recorded in 1745–55

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How to use basket fish in a sentence

  • This very singular ophiuran is commonly called the basket-fish, from its resemblance to a basket when the tentacles are rolled up.

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • And so it remains to this day as the Governor of Connecticut first christened it, the Basket-fish.

    Seaside Studies in Natural History | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz